PositiveThe Globe and Mail (CA)Her writing is ambitious, sometimes overly so. She is ready to turn words to her purpose, and while this inventiveness usually serves her, it sometimes falls flat. However, these failures are clearly the marks of a strong young writer testing her talent ... All the Living is a timeless story in many ways, and the novel betrays few clues as to a specific time or location, though it seems to be set in Kentucky or Virginia in the not-too-distant past.
